OXFORD, Alabama -- There are many things that the box score will reveal about Oxford's thrilling 56-49 win Friday night against Spain Park on Lamar Field at Oxford Stadium.

Yellow Jacket star Roc Thomas finished with career highs of 414 rushing yards and five touchdowns on 34 carries. He came into the game propelling his team to a seven-game win streak by averaging right at 200 yards and four touchdowns per game.

He outdid himself on a night where Spain Park squeezed a great game out of backup quarterback Mason Duke to keep things very interesting.

He almost equaled out Thomas on the ground by completing 32 of his 55 passes for 379 yards. He threw four touchdown passes and only one interception.

Derek Williams caught nine passes for 102 yards for the Jaguars. Teammate Dalton Brown had seven catches for 114 yards and two touchdowns.

Duke had two other potential touchdown passes where his receiver fumbled the ball at the goal line while being brought down at the 1. Spain Park (8-2) would recover both of those fumbles for touchdowns.

The Jaguars scored 28 of the 49 combined points in the fourth quarter, including the second of two fumbles they recovered in the Oxford end zone for touchdowns with 14 seconds left to play.

Thomas was absolutely brilliant. The kind of game that will have his future coaches at Auburn grinning from ear-to-ear when they hear what their future tailback did against one of the top defensive staffs in Alabama led by head coach Shawn Raney.

But that box score won't tell any recruiting zealot or War Eagle fan about the other things Thomas did against the Jaguars. He kicks off for his team and punted. When he recapped his game afterward, he spoke more about his offensive line than himself.

"It was Senior Night for us tonight but I played hard not for Senior Night or anything," he said. "I was really playing hard because this was a playoff type of atmosphere. We really wanted to step our game up as a team against a great opponent."

The combined 106 points scored by both teams was the most in AHSAA football in 2013 heading into the final week of the season. But that mark didn't last as Demopolis finished up with a 60-59 win against Hillcrest-Tuscaloosa.

The teams combined for 960 yards and 45 first downs along with those 105 combined points. Thomas was a big reason those numbers look so gaudy.

"I showed a lot of leadership before the game trying to get our players mind right," he said. "My offensive line takes a lot of criticism but they take it in a good way. They use it to motivate them and this game right here shows that those boys can really play, too."

He even walked all the way over to the Spain Park side of the field to catch the standout running back from the other team. That was Jaguar senior Otis Harris.

Harris had a great game in his own right as he scored three touchdowns, including a 41-yard run that put the visiting team up 7-0 before every stat keeper in the house would need to reach for the calculator.

The Spain Park senior ran 13 times for 67 yards, but also caught six passes for 51 yards. His two touchdown catches of 12 and 15 yards in the fourth quarter cut a 41-21 Oxford lead to 42-35 with 5:13 left to play.

When Thomas found Harris, he gave him a hug and shared a "Great game" and "great job" tonight with the other team's primary offensive weapon.

The only touch of self-analysis he shared about his skill level was he wanted to show that he was a complete back with the rest of his senior season.

That wasn't necessary. Oxford head coach Ryan Herring was more the willing to stump for how great Thomas was against the Jaguars.

"Everybody says he (is) a Top 5 back in the country," Herring said. "Right now there's no doubt to me he's number one in the country. That's how I feel about him."

The staggering stuff was Thomas had just 114 yards on 15 carries and one touchdown at the half. He proceeded to run 19 times for 300 yards and four scores in the second half. How did he do that?

Try scoring runs of 65, 21, 20 and 85 yards on four on the next seven Jacket possessions.

"What I have noticed lately when it gets tough and we have got to have something he is there," Herring said. "Its two weeks in a row now where our defense wasn't playing well and hasn't done its job stopping the other team and he comes back and breaks a run. Its been like clockwork lately. He is going to break a run."

Herring also made sure to mention the improvements his team must make on defense for a deep playoff run no matter how many yards Thomas runs for.

"I think we can play with anybody if we play well," he said. "But like tonight offensively I think we can play with anybody but defensively anybody could have beat us. We were just lucky our offense bailed us out all night long.